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JULY 27. 2025

Oasis have returned when we need them most

At Wembley Stadium, Liam and Noel Gallagher served up pure sonic energy, proving that the best things in life can live forever

JULY 25. 2025

The drone and the death of compromise

The first unmanned flying weapon was launched over a century ago – the full implications of that flight are only now being understood

The Assassin: Why we love killers on screen

Keeley Hawes’s The Assassin is part of a rash of film and TV about professional killers. When and how did they become aspirational?

Matthew d’Ancona’s culture: The Fantastic Four and a summer of cinematic fun

The best Marvel offering since Avengers: Endgame , the film works by embracing the technicolour Americana of the comic strip original

The GB News pundit who wants to deport Heathrow

Lucy White has been to the airport and was shocked to find people there were speaking foreign languages. Perhaps she should avoid the outside world

Lies, damned lies and Nigel Farage

He is on TV and social media spreading outright disinformation. It seems no one can do anything about it

Corbyn’s new party will put Farage in No10

People are being dragged toward a sinister new political project that is nothing more than a wrecking ball for the Labour party

Rosamund Pike is seriously good in Inter Alia

In Suzie Miller’s latest legal drama, the Hollywood favourite plays a judge and mother facing her worst nightmare

We need 50 India trade deals to make up for Brexit

The Brexiteers’ dream trade deal is finally done - but government hype doesn't match the facts

Is Google’s AI even more dangerous than Musk’s?

The search giant's AI Overviews is publishing outright falsehoods - potentially driving people into the arms of the far right

JULY 24. 2025

GB News, Brexit and two obscure think tanks

The hard right channel and the ecosystem which feeds it are behaving like the Japanese soldier who held out for nearly 29 years after the war ended

Brigitte Macron versus a far right fantasist

Conspiracy theorist Candace Owens claims that France’s first lady was born a man. Now the president and his wife will face her in court

JULY 23. 2025

This is Starmer’s worst mistake so far

He enjoys attacking the left of his party, but the PM’s reversal on planning laws sets him up for a confrontation with his loyalists

One Tory MP’s strange obsession with Ireland

The member for Romford is sounding off about the Northern Irish constitution. His claim to expertise is about as weak as it gets